The 27th anniversary award was given on 18 January 2009, or 18 Chaos 3175. Like the awards given by the original group, the specific reasons are not listed on the awards.

This year was the third year the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild gave the Order of the Pineapple. The two winners had a distant connection; the first Discordian pieces Reverend Loveshade wrote were for a possible collection considered by Steve Jackson.

STEVE JACKSON

Steve Jackson is a rare honoree as e was not a member of the ECG nor is e a member of the D & D of the ECG. But es company, Steve Jackson Games, published the most-circulated version of Principia Discordia under Steve's direction. Steve was the prime promoter for making the Apocrypha Discordia sequel (which was actually compiled independently by Rev. DrJon Swabey), created the Illuminati card game, encouraged the development of several Discordian/Illuminati projects, and spoke of the Men in Black before they became the topic of a movie.

"Thank you very much for the bromeliadic honor! To the ranks of flaxscrip and hempscrip we can now add pineapplescrip . . ."

For those who don't know, a pineapple is a bromeliadic fruit. The term is occasionally used in Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA) heraldry, and Steve used to be active as an SCA baron.

Reverend Loveshade

"Cool! Now I've been pineappled. And I didn't have to wait 25 years to get it."

(Zeus, co-founder and founding president of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild, was finally made a member of the O.P. in the award's 25th year. Revy Love founded the D & D of the ECG 15 years before receiving the award).

The image of Pat Pineapple in the background is by Toby Bruno and used with permission. We released the white textured wallpaper into the public domain.

The fourth group to award the Order of the Pineapple long claimed to be the second group. This was the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild, and it started with the original award's 25th anniversary.